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From its inception in the 1880s, The Norfolk & European Railway primarily carried freight but as a sideline, it always provided traveler service. A profitable, well-run company, N&W only accepted the most effective. As World Battle II ended, N&W offered several known as trains along its main line, like the Cavalier, the Pocahontas, and its daytime flagship the Powhatan Arrow. Drawn at first by the impressive Class J steam locomotives that N&W created at its Roanoke Shops, the Powhatan Arrow provided fast, luxurious, and memorable service for three years before traveler service was discontinued, giving way to vehicle and aircraft travel nationwide. The corridor traversed by the Powhatan Arrow is a wonderfully complex, geographically exciting, socially diverse, and financially mixed way through Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. The vicissitudes of time have endowed the neighborhoods on the way with a broad spectrum of fortunes, branching from success to failure. With railroads no longer carrying passengers, Michael Abraham duplicated the course as closely as you can by car, street bike, bike, and even canoe, gathering each area's background and culture and profiling enterprisers, historians, railfans, and everyday people in this enlightening, funny take a look at a swath of America's history, present, and future.
